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List of Books of The Daily Star

Forty Years of Bangladesh: Way Forward is a compilation of critical and reflective essays selected from the special supplements brought out from Mid-March to early April, 2011 to mark the 20th founding anniversary of The Daily Star. The first volume, subtitled Democracy and Governance, deals with issues ranging from governance and politics to parliament, democracy and other civic issues. It contains articles by Dr. Kamal Hossain, Professor Serajul Islam Choudhury, Dr. Mizanur Rahman Shelley, Sultana Kamal, Mohammad Badrul Ahsan, Dr. Badiul Alam Majumdar, Professor Dilara Chowdhury and Syed Manzoorul Islam, among others.

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Forty Years of Bangladesh: Way Forward is a compilation of critical and reflective essays selected from the special supplements brought out from Mid-March to early April, 2011 to mark the 20th founding anniversary of The Daily Star. The second volume, subtitled Economy and Development, focuses mainly on economic issues but deals also with energy and infrastructure. It offers articles written by Akbar Ali Khan, Mirza Azizul Islam, CR Abrar, Rizwanul Islam, Khondokar Ibrahim Khaled, M. Asaduzzaman and Salahud Din Ahmed, among others.

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Forty Years of Bangladesh: Way Forward is a compilation of critical and reflective essays selected from the special supplements brought out from Mid-March to early April, 2011 to mark the 20th founding anniversary of The Daily Star. The third volume, subtitled Foreign Policyand Human Resource, brings into focus issues related to foreign relations, regional connectivity, health, population, education, culture and art. The thickest volume in size, it offers a wide range of writers including Prof. Mustafizur Rahman, Dr. M. Rahmatullah, Hameeda Hossain, Pratima Paul Majumdar, Manzoor Ahmed, MM Akash, Prof. Selina Hossain and Syed Jamil Ahmed.

Time to Turn a Corner is a compilation of scholarly articles selected from the special supplements brought out in 2009 to mark the eighteenth founding anniversary of The Daily Star. Apart from the country's governance, economy, foreign relations and many other social dynamics, the book puts an emphasis on the political culture of vitriol and mud-slinging and the crucial issue of the caretaker government. It contains articles by Professor Rehman Sobhan, Dr. Kamal Hossain, the incumbent Commerce Minister G.M. Quader, Shaheen Anam, Rasheda K. Chowdhury, Abdul Bayes, Enam Chowdhury, Dr Jahmida Khatun and Sharier Khan, among others.

The Daily Star Book of Bangladeshi Writing, published to coincide with the 15th anniversary of the newspaper, represents a groundbreaking attempt on the part of the Bangladesh's premier daily to promote and showcase English-language writing by Bangladeshis at home and abroad. The editor of the newspaper points out that “by encouraging younger Bangladeshis to write in English, by providing them with a forum where they can publish their pieces, by promoting reading in English, by helping to spread the corollary values of literacy, good citizenship, and cosmopolitanism, we help our nation to march forward.” The book features works of fiction, non-fiction and poetry by eminent as well as promising Bangladeshi English writers such as Kaiser Haq, Fakrul Alam, Mahmud Rahman, Abeer Hoque, Kazi Anis Ahmed, Afsan Chowdhury, Nuzhat Amin Mannan and Khademul Islam, among many others. It also contains some excellent translation of Bengali authors such as Syed Muztoba Ali, Syed Waliullah and Shaheen Akhtar; and poets such as Jibanananda Das, Buddhadev Bose and Shaheed Quaderi.

A 'stir' is born is a collection of columns written by one of The Daily Star's most popular columnists who for about two decades has written under the pseudonym of Chintito. The columnist's disguise has only served to intensify readers' curiosity in his real identity. These columns, written between 1995 and 1997, have been culled mainly from the Star, The Daily Star's weekly magazine, where he still writes his weekly column under the same pseudonym. His columns are short, witty and sarcastic reflections mostly on topical issues. As he reflects, “he does drop missiles of sarcasm encased in globules of wit, in almost every sentence he writes.” The effect he thus achieves is unmistakable: You begin to think, not necessarily like him but differently.